ERIC Number: EJ1387722
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0306-9885
EISSN: EISSN-1469-3534
Integrating the Enneagram and the Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary for Multidimensional Maturity in the Personality
Kam, Christopher; Bellehumeur, Christian R.
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, v51 n1 p115-133 2023
Personality fixations that have had utility in the past can later become problematic for holistic psychological development. Adult ego development research, combined with psychoanalytic assumptions, provides a way to understand multidimensional maturity through addressing and transforming the unconscious. The Enneagram and Gilbert Durand's Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary (ASI) are two frameworks that can be integrated to help clients experience transformation in unconscious self-limiting phenomena. The Enneagram can address unconscious thoughts and feelings while the ASI can address unconscious images. Given that different personality types have different deeply structured characteristics, combining these two models can provide specifically tailored guidance to varying personalities towards multidimensional wholeness. A case study as well as implications for clinical work are provided.
Descriptors: Personality, Self Concept, Maturity (Individuals), Models, Psychological Patterns, Individual Development, Therapy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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